This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a conservative event in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, on Friday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke pounced on the opportunity to blast his critics, including the “environmental terrorists” he blames for wildfires in the West. The left, he said, is “angry,” “intolerant” and “uninformed” when it comes to public lands and environmental issues―and they aren’t interested in debate, one of the things that has “made America great.” “They don’t want to be informed.